The manifesto dubbed the 10-point agenda, highlighted, among others, the following key areas:

1. Jobs

This could be achieved through:

• Taking at least one major industry in the rural areas
• Restructuring the Youth Empowerment Fund to meet the youth in Kenya.

• Open branches of Kenya Industrial Estates all over the country
• Give incentives to banks so as to finance industries that create jobs.

2.  Food security

This was to be achieved through:

• Encourage investment in post-harvest processing and preservation and processing
• Promote value-addition in agriculture through the use of taxation

• Introduce crop and livestock insurance schemes and free extension services
• Subsidise farm inputs to ensure increased yield

3. Security

CORD intended to make Kenya secure by:

• Expanding the use of CCTVs
• Strengthen community policing for safety

• Developing a strategy to strengthen response to terrorism and militia groups
• Create a Directorate of Criminal Investigation, and be independent from the national police.

4. People-led government

CORD projected to

• Introduce checks and balances in county governments to prevent corruption
• Reform the police force to ensure the police do not delay or tamper with investigations

• Promote full participation of both women and men in governance
• Reform the public service to reward ability

5. Poverty & cost of living

CORD intended to:

• Increase savings and investment rates by rejuvenating the co-operative movement
• Promote investment over consumption, geared to high-profit taxes and low interest rates

• Keep the cost of living as low as possible by ensuring annual inflation is below five per cent
• Periodically review minimum wages to ensure low-wage earners are cushioned from inflation

6. Social equality

CORD intended to:

• Introduce a pension scheme for those aged 65 and over
• Extend cash transfers for orphans and vulnerable children.

• Establish a national health insurance scheme that covers everyone
• Ensure that counties meet their constitutional obligations on the provision of basic services

7. Infrastructure & land

CORD aimed at

• Investing
• Introducing a modern integrated rail infrastructure that connects Kenyans

• Addressing historical injustices on land, such as squatter problems
• Empowering county governments to improve, develop and upgrade local roads

8. Quality education

CORD was to provide quality education through:

• Reduce regional variations in female to male literacy ratios
• Review curriculum delivery to hard to reach children

• Recruit more teachers to correct the high pupil/teacher ratios in some areas
• Link education with the requirements of industry

9. Health care

CORD intended to:

• Establish a national health insurance scheme
• Extend health education and concentrate on preventive health care.

• Renovate health facilities so citizens are able to access high-quality services
• Train more doctors, nurses and other health personnel and improve their terms of service

10. One indivisible nation

CORD intended to:

• End artificial ethnic and factional division of the nation, while respecting ethnic, religious, cultural and racial differences

• Streamline and harmonise institutions charged with ensuring national cohesion and unity
• Ensure equal access and equal opportunities to all citizens in their different counties, through positive action to rectify imbalances and through social assistance

Read: Full Cord 2013 manifesto | Raila Odinga profile | Jubilee Manifesto in 2013 | Kalonzo Musyoka